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Abstract : Gathering, analyzing and validating the requirements is very important in software development. The completeness of the requirements plays a key role in the successful and timely delivery of the software product. Make the requirements complete through prototyping is a well-accepted approach. In this paper I propose a method to automate the prototype generation process. I propose three algorithms for the same. The algorithm 1.1 defines the service method, which implements the main features of the system. The algorithm 1.2 populates the class definitions with the method definitions. The algorithm 1.3 updates the method definitions with nested method calls. The proposed approach is implemented as a tool, and evaluated its output. It is found that the tool generates, on an average, 30% code of actual code. The proposed method of prototype generation will improve the productivity of the software industries, since it reduces the requirement gathering effort and time. Since UML is commonly used in software industry, our method is easily adaptable by software developers in industry.